When you see people in the checkout buying their food with EBT and then get $20 cash back so they can buy alcohol with cash at the same register. Your tax dollars at work.
I've never traveled outside the US with my iphone, but I've sent/received texts via SMS/imessage fine between my brother's iphone and mine without problems. If my phone and his have a good enough data signal it'll send it via imessage but if one of us doesn't or one of our phones is off or in airplane mode or something it'll send via sms. Maybe turning off iMessage via settings->messsages when traveling would help?
You can disable the group MMS and have multi-recipient messages sent as individual text messages to each recipient. Not ideal, but there's no standard way to do group messaging smartphones/dumbphones/etc. AFAIK. Settings->Messages->Group Messaging
Sales taxes aren't taxes on businesses, but rather taxes on the populace that are collected by businesses rather than trying to collect from every individual. Local brick and morter shops fall under the authority of local governments and thus have to collect the tax. Online stores don't fall under these governments' jurisdictions and thus don't have to collect it the tax that is still technically owed by residents. People are supposed to report mail-order and internet purchases to the state when filling out their taxes but enforcing this is rather difficult. Amazon has distribution centers in Indiana but until now has been able to legally say that Indiana residents are purchasing goods from their centers in other states. Either local governments have to move away from sales taxes or convince the federal government to enforce such taxes.
Teachers do NOT get 4 months to "chill off". They're often at school for a week or so after the students leave in June and are working to set up for the next year a few weeks before school begins in mid august. They get 2 months tops and a good portion of that is spent doing prep work. You sir are a douchebag of the highest order.
I prefer lists for file browsing with a bunch of files, but to play devil's advocate in a lot of the situations you mention lists would result in a lot of wasted horizontal space.
Yeah, it annoys me that the iPod has niggly faults (no power switch, no reset button, no battery compartment lid, no watchdog timer to resolve 'hanging') that more development would have cured, but instead Apple spent time and money artificially restricting and obfuscating basic functions.
I mean, really, you transfer your mp3 file (lovingly taken from vinyl and hand-finished with the correct spelling and umlauts and everything) to the thing and it RENAMES THE FILE WITHOUT ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION! Nice going, guys. Good data handling procedures there, ALTERING FUCKING USER DATA WITHOUT THE COURTESY OF MAKING A BACKUP. Excuse me while I instead copy the mp3 onto micro-sd ready to be crammed into my phone or car radio.
I could MAYBE put up with all the iPod's deficiencies if it was some POS Kazakhstani device i picked up at Asda for £10. Ludicrously, the crappy £10 music player/usb stick i DID buy from Asda is less crippled.
You know you could just NOT HAVE ITUNES ORGANIZE YOUR FILES!! It's a setting it asks you about when you first launch the program. I like having it organize my music so I don't have to give a fuck about what the files are named. If you care for some reason then don't have it organize your music!
I seem to remember the more restrictive terms of fairplay drm (7 burns of a playlist as opposed to 10) not being retroactive and only applying to songs bought from itunes after 4.5 and the increased number of authorized computers being retroactive. So the terms of the deal were changed, but in favor of the consumer. If I am indeed remembering correctly then this is a bunch of FUD.
A blog comment isn't that authoratative but it at least helps me feel like I'm not crazy. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=660#comment-24 49
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When you see people in the checkout buying their food with EBT and then get $20 cash back so they can buy alcohol with cash at the same register. Your tax dollars at work.
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Interesting. Verrrry iintersting... but also stupid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qf6Sv3A9zs
Also, obligatory xkcd regarding mythbusters: http://xkcd.com/397/
It must be so hard for you to have to deal with all of us unsophisticated people who enjoy such childish things like xkcd.
I've never traveled outside the US with my iphone, but I've sent/received texts via SMS/imessage fine between my brother's iphone and mine without problems. If my phone and his have a good enough data signal it'll send it via imessage but if one of us doesn't or one of our phones is off or in airplane mode or something it'll send via sms. Maybe turning off iMessage via settings->messsages when traveling would help?
You can disable the group MMS and have multi-recipient messages sent as individual text messages to each recipient. Not ideal, but there's no standard way to do group messaging smartphones/dumbphones/etc. AFAIK. Settings->Messages->Group Messaging
He uses the NBC app on his ipad and streams it to the atv. No recording needed.
Sales taxes aren't taxes on businesses, but rather taxes on the populace that are collected by businesses rather than trying to collect from every individual. Local brick and morter shops fall under the authority of local governments and thus have to collect the tax. Online stores don't fall under these governments' jurisdictions and thus don't have to collect it the tax that is still technically owed by residents. People are supposed to report mail-order and internet purchases to the state when filling out their taxes but enforcing this is rather difficult. Amazon has distribution centers in Indiana but until now has been able to legally say that Indiana residents are purchasing goods from their centers in other states. Either local governments have to move away from sales taxes or convince the federal government to enforce such taxes.
I only charge my iphone once a day. I'd say their battery life is pretty good.
Teachers do NOT get 4 months to "chill off". They're often at school for a week or so after the students leave in June and are working to set up for the next year a few weeks before school begins in mid august. They get 2 months tops and a good portion of that is spent doing prep work. You sir are a douchebag of the highest order.
I prefer lists for file browsing with a bunch of files, but to play devil's advocate in a lot of the situations you mention lists would result in a lot of wasted horizontal space.
Yeah, it annoys me that the iPod has niggly faults (no power switch, no reset button, no battery compartment lid, no watchdog timer to resolve 'hanging') that more development would have cured, but instead Apple spent time and money artificially restricting and obfuscating basic functions.
I mean, really, you transfer your mp3 file (lovingly taken from vinyl and hand-finished with the correct spelling and umlauts and everything) to the thing and it RENAMES THE FILE WITHOUT ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION! Nice going, guys. Good data handling procedures there, ALTERING FUCKING USER DATA WITHOUT THE COURTESY OF MAKING A BACKUP. Excuse me while I instead copy the mp3 onto micro-sd ready to be crammed into my phone or car radio.
I could MAYBE put up with all the iPod's deficiencies if it was some POS Kazakhstani device i picked up at Asda for £10. Ludicrously, the crappy £10 music player/usb stick i DID buy from Asda is less crippled.
You know you could just NOT HAVE ITUNES ORGANIZE YOUR FILES!! It's a setting it asks you about when you first launch the program. I like having it organize my music so I don't have to give a fuck about what the files are named. If you care for some reason then don't have it organize your music!
STFU you cockmunch
I seem to remember the more restrictive terms of fairplay drm (7 burns of a playlist as opposed to 10) not being retroactive and only applying to songs bought from itunes after 4.5 and the increased number of authorized computers being retroactive. So the terms of the deal were changed, but in favor of the consumer. If I am indeed remembering correctly then this is a bunch of FUD. A blog comment isn't that authoratative but it at least helps me feel like I'm not crazy. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=660#comment-24 49
You gotta love Bill Nye the Science Guy!! What do you mean he's just for kids?